common practice to have a discreet supporting nav bar in the upper-right corner of your header. It can include transactional and operational items such as login, shopping cart, customer support, or contact

If you have to make a trade-off on clicks versus thinking, use more clicks and less thinking.

The lesson is simple: make buttons look like buttons, and make anywhere else people are expected to take action clearly a place where they can take action.

Regardless of what we are designing, if buttons are bigger, options are fewer, and contrast